Personal Injury Law Round-Up # 48 by Brooks Schuelke, including a round-up of posts on contingent fees that I never got around to writing on;

Hall of Famer Jim Palmer wins an 890K medical malpractice suit in Florida regarding a detached retina (via Schuelke, above)

The Health Wonk Review by David Williams is up at Health Business Blog.

You are my sunshine (a video with no relation to the law whatsoever)

• Blawg Review #143 is up at Public Defender Blog, with Gideon’s take on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• FindLaw’s Marci Hamilton on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold New York’s way of picking judges in NYS Board of Elections v. Lopez-Torres;

• Actor Tom Arnold fights to have his legal bills paid after being wrongfully linked to a to a sexual-harassment suit, and enlists a 24 year old producer to have sex to help smooth the way;

• The award for Best Medical blog goes to Paul Levy at Running a Hospital. In case you don’t know, Levy is the CEO of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a top medical institution affiliated with Harvard, and has been busily pulling the curtain back on many of the secret problems, some of which cause injury and death;

• The Macintosh turns 24 today, as The Mac Lawyer reminds us. Apple and gave us the graphical interface we all now use. It was introduced in 1984 during Super bowl XVIII with this legendary Orwellian commercial (Director: Ridley Scott; Hammer Thrower was Anja Major, a discus thrower):

Lots of stuff I didn’t get to because I am too busy working:

A wrongful death award made to grandchildren has been ruled invalid by a New York appellate court. Only a distributee can recover, and if the parents of the grandchildren are alive, they don’t qualify. (New York Legal Update);

An eye doctor gets sued for toe-licking (No, I am not making this up);

A much less funny lawsuit of a California hospital sued for patient dumping, when it dropped a paraplegic man in a hospital gown on skid row;

TortDeform releases its Election ’08: A Pro Civil Justice Presidential Platform;

Susan Carier Liebel at Build a Solo Practice presents Blawg Review, as an inventive letter to a new attorney;

Scott Greenfield on the Supreme Court upholding New York’s judicial selection proceeding, along with the money quote from from Justice John Paul Stevens in a concurrence: “The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws;” and

And if you’re going to go off topic, you might as well do it with style, as the Justice Building Blog did in a tribute to the most famous boxer on the planet.

Been too busy to post much, but a few things that deserve note:

Welcome to a new law blog, court-o-rama, which pitches itself as “the least dangerous blog.” (Now what fun is that?) It’s the brainchild of Anne Skove, editor of the Jur-E Bulletin, and will watch everything that happens inside the courthouse doors.

Legally funny videos at The Billable Hour;

A defunct law blog wins a category of the ABA Journal Blawg 100;

TortsProf Bill Childs offers to help Jon Stewart discuss tort law, once the strike is over;

And Blawg Review #141 is at Charon QC — that’s QC as in Queens Counsel, which he is not– comes at us from across the Atlantic. And any Blawg Review that starts with a Charge of the Light Brigade is going to be a winner. Which it is.